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Vietjet has officially commenced two direct flights from Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to New Delhi. With the two additional routes, Vietjet is the first airline connecting the two biggest economic, c...

After the resumption of codeshare cooperation in 2018 to fly between Europe and Australia via Singapore and Hong Kong, the Air France-KLM Group and Qantas Group have continued working on further coop...

Airbus has announced a raft of new appointments in its newly-created communications & corporate affairs function, which will go live on 1 January 2020. The new communications leadership team will w...

Jetstar has issued a response to strike action by the Australian Federation of Air Pilots (AFAP) saying it is "deeply disappointing" that the AFAP is threatening this action around the holiday season...

Trenchard Aviation Group has appointed Neil Watkins to group sales & marketing director. The primary focus of his new role will be the development of a single sales strategy for the entire Group –...

Lufthansa AG has realigned its executive board structure, effective 1 January 2020. Karl-Ludwig Kley, chairman of the supervisory board of Deutsche Lufthansa AG, said: “With the new executive boar...

Michael Niggemann, chief financial officer of SWISS, has been appointed to the executive board of the Lufthansa Group. Niggemann will succeed Bettina Volkens as chief officer corporate human resour...

MRO specialists Aircraft Propeller Service had made two new appointments to its management team with the introduction of Maciej Paszkowski-Sikorski and Marcell Fitzgerald. Paszkowski-Sikorski has ...

Ulla Lettijeff has been appointed the new director of Helsinki Airport and a member of Finavia’s executive group, effective 6 February 2020. Throughout her career, Lettijeff has had a long tenure a...

Cranfield University has introduced a new Saab 340 s/n-456 for the purpose of aviation training to students. Graham Braithwate, professor of Aerodynamics at Cranfield University, said: “This aircr...

Aviation software firm FLYdocs has appointed Carl Davis as the company’s new chief technology innovation officer (CTIO). Davis brings more than 10 years of experience as a chief technology officer ...

A group of 25 Saudi Arabian students have graduated from an air traffic control (ATC) training programme provided by Airways International, following two years of studies in New Zealand. The studen...